Chapter 197 The other side of memory

When he saw this, Chen Yan's spirit felt like a convulsion.

He subconsciously shifted his gaze, and the twitching sensation disappeared immediately.

'I must not watch this anymore.'

He had a very strong premonition in his heart that if he continued to forcefully watch his third uncle's memories, something very bad would definitely happen.

When he "looked" around the link channel again, Chen Yan was startled - he saw that those weird things outside the channel had gotten very close to him at some point, and the "zombie limb flesh ball" that was the closest to him was even just a few feet away from him.

Less than two meters!

His scalp was numb because of the ugly thing, and he couldn't help but "step back" - he wanted to follow the link channel and return from the third uncle's consciousness to the consciousness of the fetus in Malina's belly.

He was "running" and thinking at the same time.

After reading these memories of his third uncle, he already understood some of the things that happened between his third uncle and Marina, and thought of a lot from these things.

At this time, a clear thought appeared in his mind:

Judging from Third Uncle's memory, there was no "abnormal sublimation ceremony" from beginning to end.

The only thing that can be compared with the word "ritual" is the [Flesh and Flesh Ascension Ceremony] that Xanthium forced the third uncle to perform.

etc……

Chen Yan suddenly realized that what Xanthium called [Flesh and Blood Ascension Ritual] was the [Abnormal Sublimation Ritual] as judged before!

this!

That's right... The reason why the third uncle has strong recovery ability is because Xanthium has performed a ritual that gave him a "perfect" flesh and blood body.

Chen Yan clearly remembered that Xanthium had said that the third uncle "completed the forbidden rituals from the ancient East with a body carrying the blood of the West."

The so-called "body carrying the blood of the West" refers to the third uncle's body infected with the lycanthropy virus unique to the Imperial demihuman race.

The so-called "taboo rituals from the ancient East" refer to the [flesh and blood ascension ritual] mentioned by Xanthium lucidum - this comes from the "name of the East" mentioned by Xanthium lucidum.

Combining these speculations, Chen Yan judged from all the information he later learned that in the so-called "West", another name for the "Flesh and Blood Ascension Ceremony" is the "Sublimation Ceremony"!

After a few thoughts, some previous mysteries suddenly became clear.

Chen Yan did not stop moving forward, because he felt that his spirit was getting more and more exhausted, as if he had stayed up for several days and nights without sleeping, and he urgently needed to rest.

He ran back along the link channel, leaving the weird existence outside the link channel far behind him.

I don’t know how long I ran, but I never returned to the head of the fetus in Marina’s belly.

Chen Yan was a little anxious. The time he spent "running back" far exceeded the time it took to "enter the third uncle's head through the link". This abnormal situation could not be explained at all, so he was flustered.

He had no other choice. The [Link Channel] only had two ends. He could only run in the direction from which the channel came, until he returned to the head of the fetus in Marina's belly.

After running for an unknown amount of time, Chen Yan was so tired that he could no longer run. The [Link Channel] in front of him still seemed to have no end.

'I...couldn't I have run away...'

He was so panicked that he used the remaining rationality in his head to think.

'It stands to reason that the [link] I am currently on should have three nodes: me, the fetus, and my third uncle.'

'After I fell asleep tonight, the link in my head automatically activated, allowing me to enter the head of the fetus.'

'Later, I accidentally triggered the ability of the fetus to [make links] and entered the third uncle's head.'

‘[Me → Fetus → Third Uncle], the link when I came here is like this.’

'I'm going back now, the direction should be [Uncle 3 → Fetus → Me].'

'The two routes should take the same amount of time, but I obviously spent more time on the second route now.'

'If I really ran past...if I really ran past [my] node, then, where am I now?'

Chen Yan looked at the narrow path disappearing into the darkness and suddenly shivered all over.

'Where am I... now?'

He turned to look where he had come from, only to see that the link to his third uncle's head had disappeared - and at some point, there was a cliff behind him!

'The cliff is just a [appearance], which means that I have no way out, and I can't retreat back to Third Uncle's head!'

'damn it……'

Chen Yan immediately understood that when his mental strength was not enough to support a complete [link], the link to his third uncle's head naturally disappeared.

There was no way out, but the weird things outside the link channel were still there. They had caught up without knowing it, floating outside the link channel, staring at Chen Yan with weird eyes, and uttering whispers that Chen Yan couldn't understand.

As they got closer and closer, Chen Yan knew that he had to start moving forward again.

Chen Yan turned his head and looked at the dark road ahead.

'We can only move forward...'

In his panic, he took another step forward.

After taking the difficult first step, the next steps were not so stressful. He just groped in the darkness and moved forward step by step with difficulty.

Until some broken pictures appeared in the darkness in front of him.

Chen Yan looked at one of the pictures and suddenly stopped.

In the picture, "a small, childish Chen Yan" was looking at an old telephone, and beside him was a tall, middle-aged man wearing Asian clothes.

Is this... my past?!

Yes...yes! The node at the end of the link is [I], myself!

Did I...did I cross the node of [me] and enter my [deeper] memory? Because I have never seen that middle-aged man!

Chen Yan looked at the picture floating in front of him again.

The moment I saw the picture clearly, a sharp pain suddenly appeared in my head.

He lowered his head subconsciously, and the sharp pain that appeared like thunder disappeared in an instant.

'There's something...preventing me from observing my past memories...'

When he raised his head again, the picture in front of him had drifted away. If he didn't catch up immediately, he might never see it again.

Chen Yan took a step forward.

An extremely strange yet very familiar voice appeared in my ears.

"Brother, we can't go any further."

Chen Yan looked towards where the sound came from and saw a girl whose face could not be seen clearly standing next to the link channel.

He immediately saw the light blue dress she was wearing, and subconsciously noticed the sunflower decoration on her chest.

"You...you are..."

A name stuck in my mouth and I couldn't say it out.

Chen Yan desperately "raised his head" to take a look at her appearance, but his instinct of self-protection prevented him from seeing the girl's face clearly, lowering his field of vision so that he could not see her true face no matter what.

appearance.

"well……"

A slight sigh appeared.

"Brother, why are you so anxious? We will see each other soon!"

She came to Chen Yan and buried her head in his arms.

"I also really want to see my brother~"

There was a hint of sharpness in her voice.

"But, there is a nasty person who wants to ruin our good things. I have to go back and deal with her quickly... So, brother, don't come and cause trouble for me for the time being. Wait until I deal with her and then meet with brother.

!”

After she said these words, Chen Yan rolled his eyes and fell down softly.

She held his head, slowly placed him on the empty ground of the link passage, and sang an unknown requiem softly.

Chen Yan's consciousness then fell into darkness.
Chapter completed!